A crazed gunman who terrorized three people during a standoff at a rural Louisiana bank posted terrifying Facebook messages including a cartoon about hostages in the hours leading up to his deadly assault.

The standoff ended after 12 hours on Tuesday with one male hostage shot dead by suspect
Fuaed Abdo Ahmed and another LaDean McDaniel being left in critically injured.

In the hours leading up to the deadly attack, it was discovered that Ahmed had posted a photo of a man with a sword battling a tank online.

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Attack: Hostage-taker Fuaed Abdo Ahmed shot dead a bank employee and critically injured another in St Joseph, Louisiana on Tuesday. He was killed by a SWAT team who stormed the building

Disturbed: Ahmed posted this image on his Facebook in the hours leading up to the hostage situation at a Louisiana bank. He was killed along with one hostage

On August 11, he posted a cartoon strip on his Facebook wall which shows a hostage negotiation.

In the first image, a man in a balaclava pointing a gun at a man says: 'I'll release the hostage if you give me a sandwich!'

Two
hostage negotiators are then seen discussing the demand. The first
says: 'How close is the nearest deli' to which the other responds:
'Three blocks.'

In the last picture, a hostage negotiator says through a bullhorn: 'Okay, you can kill the hostage.'

The 20-year-old had initially taken three hostages when he stormed the
Tensas State Bank in St Joseph before releasing the woman.

Louisiana
State Police superintendent Col. Mike Edmonson said he had no further
information about the dead hostage.

Preparing for what comes: State and local authorities gathered outside the Tensas State Bank branch after an armed 20-year-old man took three people hostage Tuesday afternoon

Scene: The incident is believed to have started as a robbery attempt that escalated into a hostage situation

During
negotiations with law enforcement Ahmed said he was going to kill the
remaining two, and when officers entered the building just before
midnight on Tuesday he shot the hostages before being shot and killed by
police.

Edmonson said Ahmed shot the two hostages in the upper body before state police shot and killed him.

He said the hostages were taken from the scene in critical condition after the incident, which began when the gunman took two women and a man captive about 12:30 pm yesterday.

Hours after the standoff began, one of
the hostages was released but their condition and identity has still not
been made public.

Terrorizing: Ahmed was said to be delusional and had left behind notes and a hostage negotiation book at his apartment

Family: The suspected gunman with relatives in LA. He moved to Louisiana with family after his father died 12 years ago

In talks: The police stormed the bank at around midnight after talks with the hostage-taker failed

Edmonson confirmed the release of a female bank teller late Tuesday.

He said authorities were talking with her about her ordeal.

Earlier Tuesday, Edmonson said that
the man had been calm and had made some demands, but he would not
describe the demands or further identify the gunman.

'We're still working with him to determine exactly what his intent is,' Edmonson said.

The gunman, carrying at least a
handgun, took two women and a man captive about 12:30 p.m. at the Tensas
State Bank branch in St. Joseph, and a negotiator talked with him
throughout the afternoon, said Trooper Albert Paxton, a state police
spokesman.

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The red-brick bank is just off
Louisiana Highway 128, a rural stretch of road cutting through
cornfields. It is across the street from Trak convenience store, which
the gunman's family owns, in St. Joseph, the seat of Tensas Parish.

Edmonson had earlier warned that the standoff could last for some time.

'Our utmost concern right now more than anything else is the safety of those hostages,' he said.

More law enforcement people and equipment would be brought in, he said then. 'We've got to be prepared to act,' Edmonson said.

Richardo Miles, a 25-year-old farmworker, said he lives about a half-mile from the bank.

He sat on his bicycle at a roadblock
near an abandoned hardware store about a quarter-mile away, watching the
activities of dozens of first responders, including paramedics and
heavily armed men in camouflage.

A helicopter circled overhead in the
overcast sky for a time as men, some carrying assault rifles, gathered
in the street in front of the bank.

Law enforcement trucks also hauled in construction lights, apparently to prepare in case the standoff lasted into the night.

Late Tuesday, authorities had received a request for food from those inside the bank building.

The sight of the state police bomb squad and SWAT team unnerved many people in the sleepy farm town, Miles said.

'It's kind of startling for the
residents. We're not accustomed to this kind of activity,' said Miles.
'Some people are pretty scared. They're nervous.'

Tensas Parish lies along Mississippi
River, but St. Joseph is about a mile from the riverbank and about two
miles from a 3,000-acre oxbow lake that long ago was one of the river's
bends. Nearly one-third of the parish's 5,000 residents live under the federal poverty level, according to U.S. Census figures.

Farmland makes up more than 45
percent of the 600-square-mile parish, with most of it in cotton, feed
grains, soybeans and wheat.